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Definition of Trabeation
1. n. Same as Entablature.
Definition of Trabeation
1. Noun. (architecture) beams used instead of arches or vaulting ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trabeation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trabeation
Literary usage of Trabeation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"... 1. beams and joists of a building, frame-work; 2. trabeation, entablature (of
columns), [demean one's self. ©ebu'ren, (w.) vn & refl. ..."
2. The Music of the Eye: Or, Essays on the Principles of the Beauty and by Peter Legh (1831)
"... from its principal feature being a defined. trabeation for shelter, with no
other support than the mere walls. 46. It will be very easily conceived, ..."
3. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1887)
"An examination of the fragments make it possible to distinguish the elements that
formed the trabeation, the friezes, the gable, etc. ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1851)
"... so employed in the classical style, but were originally intended to support
a horizontal entablature : in other words, trabeation is essential to them. ..."
5. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1858)
"The whole detail of these pillars, capitals, trabeation, &c., is that massive
Early French Pointed with ..."
6. Italy : Handbook for Travellers: Third Part, Southern Italy, Sicily, the by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1867)
"On some of the fragments of this temple traces of the gorgeous colouring of the
trabeation are distinctly recognised. It is said to have contained the ..."
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